the missing
30-45 minutes
In the missing the forest comes alive, haunted by extinct and critically endangered multi-species beings. The audience is invited into a deep time experience of the land by imagining how it has transformed over time, and the different species that have inhabited it 10,000 years ago, 1000 years ago, 100 years ago, 10 years ago. Who are the endangered species that still call this place home? Audiences are invited to wander, to spend time with who is seen, unseen, present and missing. Performers are dispersed through the landscape, high in trees, entwined in roots, engaged in deep developmental movement investigations, animating the forest as non-representational, multi-species beings. The experience of the missing opens a relational field rather than centering on a single event, figure, or performer. It creates a contemplative, porous space for the audience, who may choose to wander through the landscape, follow a performer, pause and listen, or spend time in conversation with fungi, foxes they encounter.
